Border dispute: Amit Shah to hold a meeting with the CMs of Karnataka and Maharashtra
Union Home Minister Amit Shah is scheduled to hold a meeting with Karnataka chief minister Basavaraj Bommai and Maharashtra CM Eknath Shinde at 7 pm today.
The meeting is to discuss the ongoing Belagavi border controversy and will most likely take place at his residence.
Speaking about this, Karnataka CM Basavaraj Bommai said, “Under the leadership of Amit Shah, we will be having a meeting on the border dispute. We will reiterate our stand on the issue. We will also elaborate on our journey all this while and what the situation right now. What is the position of legal aspects and Constitutionally. How Karnataka up holding the legal and constitutional guidelines.”
“Maharashtra is using border issue as political tool for five to six decades now. They will keep doing this but for us it’s the matter of safeguarding our people, border, land and water,” added CM Bommai.
The raging dispute has its roots in the State Reorganisation Act, 1956, which aimed at reorganizing the states along linguistic lines. After independence, Belagavi was part of the Bombay state that included parts of present-day Karnataka.